Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Hanscom Park Studio A constantly creative graphic design shop in midtown Omaha. ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://hanscompark.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Recent Work](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/) - [Film Streams poster series](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/film-streams-poster-series/) - As part of our ongoing collaboration with Film Streams celebrating the Dundee Theater’s 100th anniversary, Quentin printed up the third in a series classic movie posters, this one for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. He etched the block on a precise laser built in 2025, then hand-inked and printed on a Poco Proof press - [Open to All website](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/open-to-all-website/) - We helped design and launch a new website for the nationwide nonprofit. - [HPS at other parks](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/hps-at-other-parks/) - We designed new panels for display at Dahlman Park and Memorial Park that highlight each park’s unique history and community. Now on display until Nebraska weather inevitably takes its toll. - [New Joslyn Castle websites](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/new-joslyn-castle-websites/) - This spring we worked on a couple projects to help showcase one of Omaha's oldest and best homes. - [New neon](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/new-neon/) - It’s always incredible to see our designs go one step further with @neonjungleomaha. - [Nebraska News Map](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/nebraska-news-map/) - We both spent years in newsrooms, so we jumped at the opportunity last year to help with a University of Nebraska project about journalism in our home state. - [Mercury personality test menu](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/mercury-personality-test-menu/) - Another season, another spectacular menu concept from Clark and the gang at Mercury. This time, they created a cocktail-themed Myers-Briggs-style personality test: 20 bonkers questions, 16 celebrity pairings and 16 drinks with ingredients matched to specific personality types. We designed the oversized spinning dial for the physical menus and wrote the code for the online - [Flatwater Free Press story illustrations](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/flatwater-free-press-story-illustrations/) - News stories don't often look good. If there aren't photographs paired with a story, it can be hard to convey to readers why they should read an article, especially if all they're seeing is a headline in a news feed. For investigations and stories explaining government process and procedures, finding the right visuals can be - [New Phases](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/new-phases/) - Our tagline is “Constantly Creative” for a reason. Outside of work hours, and outside of client projects, we can’t help but apply our creativity to personal projects. Here’s a bittersweet personal project from me, Quentin: A certain amount of any designer’s work hits the cutting room floor. It’s the nature of the business. But this - [Seattle Mariners 2024 Yearbook](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/seattle-mariners-2024-yearbook/) - "We have a call tomorrow morning with the Seattle Mariners." 👀 When a Major League Baseball team emails, you double-check the subject line. And when it happens to be your lifelong favorite MLB team that needs your help, you have to delay your reply by a couple hours so you don't seem too eager to - [Allens Home](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/allens-home/) - We'd been Allens Home customers long before Stewart and Susie asked us to freshen up their brand with a redesigned website, storefront signage and updated marketing materials. The store was moving from its longtime home on L Street, and needed a fresh look to match the beautiful new showroom. Since the website's launch, we've written - [Who's Buying Nebraska?](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/whos-buying-nebraska/) - The Flatwater Free Press published an investigation about land ownership in Nebraska and asked us to create a set of illustrations to weave the stories together. Quentin's intricate illustrations combined iconic Nebraska scenes, story subjects and textural elements that instantly provided readers a sense of each story's scope. The crop-circle pattern and Nebraska outline — - [Nebraka Public Payrolls](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/nebraka-public-payrolls/) - We worked with the Flatwater Free Press this winter to rebuild Nebraska Public Payrolls — a web app of salary information and pay details for Nebraska public-sector employees. It's a big project — thousands of employee records across state and local organizations — and they needed a searchable, fast-loading site that was easy for the - [Hanscom Park Studio neon sign](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/hanscom-park-studio-neon-sign/) - We’ve started rebuilding our woefully neglected website. While we’re still some weeks away from having it ready to launch, we’ll preview it by saying it involves a custom neon sign, which was delivered this week. Shout out to Neon Jungle for her amazing work. - [Silicon Prairie News redesign and branding](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/silicon-prairie-news-redesign-and-branding/) - The Nebraska Journalism Trust took the reins of Silicon Prairie News last year to preserve SPN's archive and enhance its coverage of the startup community in Nebraska. We worked with SPN and the NJT team to relaunch siliconprairienews.com in early 2024 — a new look that shows NJT's commitment to expanding the site's coverage and - [Sunflower Grant Writers holiday cards](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/sunflower-grant-writers-holiday-cards/) - We love any excuse to dust off the HPS letterpress. This month we designed, carved and hand printed a batch of holiday cards for our friend Katie at Sunflower Grant Writers. More details about the letterpress: It's a 1910s Poco No. 0 Proof Press, found in the A&R Salvage yard in Omaha. On and off - [Omaha Public Library Reading Challenge notebooks](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/omaha-public-library-reading-challenge/) - We worked with the Omaha Public Library to create field notebooks for their 2020 Reading Challenge. It outlines monthly categories to help readers get 12 books under their belts in the new year. Pick up your free copy starting today at your nearest branch. Omaha Public Library Reading Challenge: Website / Instagram - [Sarah Baker Hansen logo and branding](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/sarah-baker-hansen-logo-and-branding/) - We’re super excited for today’s launch of @sarahbakerhansen’s new site and brand. Inspired by vintage fashion monograms and kitchens full of cookbooks, we spent the last few months making sure we pinned down her style exactly. Sarah Baker Hansen: Website / Instagram - [Mercury - Choose Your Own Adventure menu](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/mercury/) - We’re starting work on @mercuryomaha’s next menu concept, but there’s still a few weeks to check out their current one. We worked with them to create a custom Choose Your Own Adventure paperback novel to help patrons pick their cocktails. Amazing, spot-on illustrations by @saramellorart. Keep an eye out for the launch of their new - [Blackstone Theater](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/blackstone-theater/) - It's always fun to work with our neighbors. The Blackstone Theater is a comedy venue right down the street from the HPS office. And they needed an updated online experience to pair with their newly remodeled theater space. As part of the website upgrade, we worked to improve their show-scheduling and ticket-sales workflows to make - [Nebraska Beer Bracket](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/nebraska-beer-bracket/) - She’s done pizza. She’s done burgers. This year Sarah Baker Hansen opens up her annual March Madness food bracket statewide in search of Nebraska’s best beer. Like the past couple years, we had a blast helping her design and build the tournament. The market research was fun, too. 😉🍺🍻 Nebraska Beer Bracket » - [2023 Planner](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/2023-planner/) - The past few years we’ve hand-printed calendars to mail out as year-end promos. They’ve snarkily cursed the previous year and Covid. For 2023, we decided to focus on the future instead. We produced 400 weekly planners based on the design Quentin has used for years. We then hand-pressed a 2023 calendar on the back cover - [Nebraska Alumni magazine](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/nebraska-alumni-magazine/) - Here are some highlights from the past few issues of @nebraskaalumni’s Nebraska Quarterly. The current issue has a great cover photo by @danafritzphoto for a @carsonvaughan story on the unlikely origin of Nebraska’s National forests. We illustrated the tricky topic of the intersection of commerce and religion this spring. And for a @sarahbakerhansen feature last - [Dahlia House](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/dahlia-house/) - We’ve been helping @dahliahouse_ with their pending grand opening. Using the geometry of roofline and a healthy dose of inspiration from Alexander Girard, we developed a warm, late-mid-century Nordic vibe for fun, 2020s Benson A-frame. - [2022 Calendar](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/2022-calendar/) - We got a late start this year, but we finished up our end-of-year calendar promos last week. We’ve got a few dozen in the shop (link in profile) from the edition of 500. We printed in two colors this year, on our smaller 5x8 Kelsey Excelsior letterpress. - [Flatwater Free Press](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/flatwater-free-press/) - We’re super excited for today’s official launch of Flatwater Free Press, Nebraska’s first independent, nonprofit newsroom focused on investigations and feature stories that matter. We got back to our journalism roots and designed a website and developed an identity for our friends and former colleagues. They’ve worked out of our studio the past two months - [This Old Castle](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/this-old-castle/) - Inspired in part by the classic PBS series, we did a logo for Joslyn Castle's 2023 speaker series, “This Old Castle.” The first Wednesday of each month, a trade professional is giving a talk in their craft. The topics are interesting, price of admission modest, and it qualifies as continuing education in some fields. And - [Rabble Mill](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/rabble-mill/) - Rabble Mill's events and programming for teens are spectacular ... and expanding quickly. They've got skate venues, a coffee shop, national partnerships and a new career development program with Lincoln Public Schools, all aimed at giving kids a place to develop their passions. We've helped them on a handful of print and digital products through - [Omaha Farmers Market](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/omaha-farmers-market-website/) - A few years back, the Omaha Farmers Market asked us to update the signage and marketing materials used to promote their popular Old Market and Aksarben weekend markets. The caveat: The events already had a vibrant reputation, so the branding needed a refresh, not a restart. The solution: We turned an existing design accessory — - [Omaha Burger Bracket](https://hanscompark.com/recent-work/omaha-burger-bracket/) - We teamed up with Sarah Baker Hansen for another food bracket this year. The Omaha Burger Bracket was a monthlong contest that let hungry Omahans vote for their favorite burger from restaurants across the city. We helped rank the participants from 1 to 64, sorted them into regions, then created the voting system to help ## Pages - [Hanscom Park Studio](https://hanscompark.com/) - A constantly creative graphic design shop in midtown Omaha. We help people tell stories. - [Contact Hanscom Park Studio](https://hanscompark.com/contact/) - We'd love to help tell your story. Send us a note, or stop by our Omaha office to let us know what you're working on. - [About Hanscom Park Studio](https://hanscompark.com/about/) - We help people tell stories. Our background is in storytelling, and we aim to do it in the most engaging way possible. We both have degrees in journalism and worked for years communicating stories with a distinct voice. 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